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THE MONUMENT AND CROSS. 

(Copyrighted in 1885.) 
By H. Harris. 



THE MONUMENT 



December 24, 1799, Congress voted to have a Marble Monument erected 
to Washington. But it was not until July 4, 1848, that the Corner-Stone 
was laid. It was carried up 152 feet, and there remained until August 7, 
1880, wLen the completion of it was begun. The Capstone— a marble 
pyramid weighing 3,300 pounds, and having ati aluminium point— was set 
December 6, 1881, at 2 P. M., with appropriate ceremony, on a platform 
Cu)0 feet high— the height of the Monument — the wind blowing at the 
time at an estimated velocity of .^>0 miles an hour, and the thermometer 
standing at 59°. It is the highest monument in the world ! The Flag 
was then run up from the centre of the shaft, 50 feet higher, carrying it 
to a height of GOO feet. The foundation is 80 feet square, set in solid rock 
eight feet below the surface. The Shaft at the base is n.'! feet square, and 
the walls at the base are 15 feet thick. The whole weight of the Monu- 
ment is 80,378 tons — over five tons to a square foot. In the interior lining 
are set numerous blocks of marble, presented by the States and cities of 
the United States and other countries, and by various Societies, all prop- 
erly inscribed. A Spiral Stairs of 900 steins, requiring 20 minutes to 
pass, and also an Elevator, will afford means of ascent, etc. The cost, so 
far, is $1,130,000, and the work surrounding the base has not yet been set 
up. The Monument has well been called " The World's Great Ceno- 
taph" to the "Chiet of Men." 



WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONUMENT. 

THE MONUMENT AND CROSS. 

An Ode for the Dedication. 

12ino, 21 pages. 25 cents. Five copies for $1.00. 

To the Public: 

To the men of Christian Thought of this Nation this Ode is respectfully 
commended, as an humble and grateful acknowledgment of our Life, 
Growth, and Greatness from the God of Washington; and the influence of 
the Sublime, Elevating, and Liberty-giving doctrines of the New Testament 
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 

By the Author, 

HORACE HARRIS. 
Washington, D. C, Feb. 11, 188.->. 



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The Washington National Monument, 



AN DCE. 



Thou Monument Divine, thy sacred height, 
For aye, shall gleam in light eftulgent, pure, 
The purer light of upper fields, where angels bright, 
From glory came, to sing for God the notes 
Evangel — " Glad tidings of great joy" — 
Of *' Peace on Earth, good-will to men" — 
Sublimest theme to mortals ever named ! 
And, liigh above thy shining brow, tliy glory Crest — 
The diamond-glistening Banner of Columbia — 
Shall, by the winds of God, the grand rehearsal 
Ever chant, of Peace on Earth, good-will to men ! 
And, from its shining pinnacle, the Eagle bold 
And proud — America's Immortal Emblem Bird ! — 
Shall plume his pinions, strong for Liberty, 
And sound in notes, the Earth to pierce around, 
From pole to pole, the message welcome, of Freedom ^ 
Humanity, and loving Brotherhood 
To all the tribes of waiting, sorrowing men ! 
And, chimes of Independence Bell, 



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On July Fourth, of " Seventy-Six," 
" Proclaiming Liberty unto the Land, 
And all Inhabitants thereof," ring on. 
Ring on, forever ring ye herald melody. 
From, deep vibrations of the atmosphere 
Made tremulous with e'er-increasing shouts 
Of Freemen in praise of Washington — 
Ye thrill our burning hearts with hope to-day ! 

Thou Monument Divine ! in sovereign grace 
Resplendent ! we bov\^ us down in humble praise, 
And solemn awe, and adoration most profound. 
And worship at thy blood-besprinkled side — 
We worship God, the Infinite ! Jehovah God ! 
The Triune God who gave us Washington, 
Whom thou dost here, so proudly now commemorate ! 
And we will ever voice in loftiest hymn 
Of fervent prayer — 

"Father all glorious, come and reign over us. 

Ancient of Days ! " 

The people of the "Colonies," from men 
Of May-Flower down, do send to thee their 
Tribute from the past, in present growth 
And life, in works of men from virgin germs. 
And ample master tillage, acknowledging 
The Pilgrim Sires, and minds, in deepest, solemn 
Consecration of Pilgrims holy. 

The "Thirteen States," in blest confederation-tie, 
As stately Patriarchs, new resurected 



In our tliought, and joyful in praise, 

Do bend in adoration at this Altar, National, ] 

And read, and wonder at the triumph, thou i 

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Mute Column, to spirit life perceptive, i 

Dost here annunciate, of Lands redeemed ] 

For honor, God, and greatness, since their day. J 

And all the Added States — their Stalwart Sons, ; 

Do join this day to magnify thy wondrous 
Mission-work, thou Shaft alone, unequalled, | 

To tell of Freedom-Life for all mankind ! 

And other States, in other Lands, most rev'rent 
Before this Shrine of Liberty, shall bring 
Their richest Oflerings, in praise of present good, 
And good prefigured in what they see already j 

Done, which thou, great Marble, Inspiration-Shaft, * 

Dost make prophetic. [ 

The broken chains and fetters vile, that bound 
"The human form divine," we bring, and, with cement 
Enduring, do form a pavement, tesselate. 
At thy deep frowning base, where myriad 
Freemen, in their often gathering at thy side, i 

Shall tread them down in dust and ignominy ! 1 

To prove that not again shall they 
Their bondage-work perform ! Nor other chains 
The human soul shall bind, in this broad land 
Of Washington, and free, good-will to all, 
While thy bold form shall pierce the vaulted sky ! ' 

And now, with quickened sense of spirit ken, 



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By contribution from the past of Record Godvvard, 
A sapphire cloud I see, and rainbow crowned, 
Enfold this Emblem Shaft — the Monumental 
Obelisk ! And lo, a Cross it forms, so blending 
With the stately Pile, that each seems part 
And part of each — so hap'ly interwoven ! 
A Cross on which the patriot millions 
Freely bled, and lives made sacrifice, a way 
To open up for Freedom's blessed rule 
For other men ! The Cross of Him, 
Who, eighteen centuries agone. 
In holy triumph o'er His foes, 
And holy offering, vicarious, 
Of Himself set up, on which to die. 
The world to give the Liberty eternal — 
The life for everlasting in the mansions kingly ! 
'Tis through the Cross we celebrate 
Our Washington ; for who can history deny. 
The diary of our greatness wrought in God — 
The Crucified? Yea, thus we celebrate 
This Natal Day of Freedom's Sire and vSon — 
A Nation's proudest triumph in the world ! 
And from that sacrificial Cross, and this 
High Monumental Spire — the highest in the world — 
I see the Ladder of the Patriarch 
Ascend, and reach the azure dome, to show 
An open way — Jesus " The Way " — twixt earth and lieaven ; 
And angels coming down on mission broad 



Of love, and men and angels go, in rapture up 
The burnished path, to shout the triumph high. 
Of grace eternal, and Liberty for all. 
In Eden's beatific realm ! 

And echoes heavenly, now so pealing down 
The arches from above, in blessed symphony, 
Do fill our souls with ecstasy complete. 
Seraphic, on this our day of crowning exultation ! 

And shining hosts, ten thousand strong, 
To-day swing censers golden in mid-heaven, 
And all the earth and sky do fill witli fragrance 
Precious, fragrance holy, the perfume sweet 
Of souls and lands made blest to God, 
Through Liberty unfolded ! 

This Natal Day we glad commemorate. 
Of Washington, our Nation's Chief, 
In greatness and renown ; who, first in war. 
And first in peace, and first in hearts of his 
Own countrymen ; and first in hearts 
Of freedom-loving men the wide world round ; 
And widening into growing splendors 
Of applause, sublime, along the cycles 
Of the coming years ! 

The time he lived was radiant on the past, 
Before his day ; but then with now compared, 
As but the glowworm-spark, the rush-light flame, 
Beside the vivid lightning blaze, in fact and thought. 
To guild and guide in burning works and words 



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Of blessing, the pathway of the men 
Of doings of to-day. 

But these, our days of quickened thought 
Ilhnnination, and workings briUiant and profound, 
Were typed in his own time, by not a few, 
Of lofty mould, and make of genius shrewd 
For goverjiment, and great and high-born speech ; 
And eloquent for truth, for honor, 
And nobility in man ; who, erst, by God's 
Own hand and call, were made to tell — 
By greatness in themselves — the coming greatness 
Of the men of forward days on whom should fall 
The spirit of their might. From them we boast 
Our Magna Charta, our Independence 
Declaration wise, proclaiming Equal Rights 
Inalienable, sure, for all from God, 
To Life, and Liberty, and blest pursuit 
Of Happiness — Great Rule of Rights, 
To men of kindred blood, the wide world o'er — 
A rich Mosaic laid in words 

More rare, and grand — combined for beauty, strength. 
And dignity of sense, and bold import — 
Than all the words of human speech 
We know beside. And well we boast of men. 
Compeers of Washington ; and proud to tell 
Their lasting fame. They were the seed 
Which makes our harvests golden, of men 
And great achievements ; their names, as precious gems 



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Set ill the crown of Washington, 
Shall brighten evermore ! 

But O, the struggle fiery, desperate, 
Of this our Leader true, with high 
And solemn trust in God, and his so brave. 
Right-hearted men, on all the fields 
Of deadly strife ; and sufferings greater 
From lack of means, in camp, and field, 
And painful marchings ! 

And La Fayette — from generous helping France, 
A valiant Representative — who sought us out 
Li Freedom's perilled hour ; and bared 
His bosom, free from pride, or shame or fear, 
To help to gain the liberties of vStates 
And Peoples not his own ! 
How everlasting rings the praise of men 
So noble, all unselfish, as was he ! 
Forever stand that name with Washington, 
On Honor's foremost lasting roll ! 

So free the air we breathe, so open all 
The lines of life, to eminence in lore. 
In wealth, in social state, in statesmanship. 
As that the humblest, rudest lad 
Upon the "tow-path " walk, or " flat-boat " deck^ 
Or at the farmer's toil of" splitting rails," — 

(All honor to our martyred Presidents, 

Our Lincoln and Garfield immortalized ! 



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And tears in deepest sorrow flow,) 
And these we see — our common men — may well and sure, 
By dint of persevering labor, travel up 
To greatest name of men on earth — 
To President of these United vStates — 
Insuring higher rank than Sovereignty 
In any land beside, beneath the blazing sun ! 

O for a pen, by angel fingers sped, 
To tell the wide successes, flowing onward 
In the path of triumph, of our Washington — 
Leader Mighty ! God-commissioned for these days — 
His trusty Sword to Freedom blessed ! 
Immortal ! And he the same in all his 
Living work ! A Patriot President, 
And true and wise for Freedom's glorious cause ; 
And spurned the honor and the name of King ; 
Most pleased was he, as Citizen of this 
Blest Land, and with the smiling millions 
Share their fame, and feel the thrilling sense 
Of Common Kinship, in Blood — x\merican ! 
And yet a pure and Kingly Line was his. 
Extending back through Royal Blood — 
And sure and perfect trace preserved — 
To days of Llim, the great Messiah — King ; 
And seventy years before our Lord, 
To Odin, Founder and King of Scandinavia ! 
How strange and blest to us this chain, intact, 
Of wondrous Providence for Washington — 



The Prince of Men ! — two thousand years 1 

Of Record of his lineage, safe, unbroken ! i 

'Twas then three million men this land 
Contained, but now the millions are threescore ! I 

And then the "West" — the utmost thougiit, just by : 

The Alleghany Ridge. But now the West — ! 

Who linds the West? i\nd on and on you go, i 

And on, and still, like search for sunset, ■ 

Unrewarded ! The Continent may cross, 
And broad Pacific, too, to find the West ; 
And then the old-time Continent of Orient ; ^ 

Anon Atlantic sail, and strike New York, ,] 

And find f/iaf West — as much the West i 

As any place \s now. The West to us — i 

The gorgeous, boundless West is everywhere ! — i 

Like Freedom's sunlit-sky, and Freedom's Splendor Flag — I 
And trailed in dust nor evermore ! 
And name American, broad synonym 
Of Liberty, Greatness, Honor, Power — 
Assuring recognition Kingly, instant o'er the World ; 
And Freedom's bursting spirit, generous, 
Instinct with love for human kind, 
And these reach kindly out to every 
Acre of Old Earth ! 

And then in travelling, by old-time stage — 
Five miles an hour, with coach-and-four. 
But now who tells how fast we go ! 
Too fast to count the mile-posts by the way ! 



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How fast we live and grow ! How fast 

We think and work ! How fast the world ■ 

Grows better by the life we live in these 

Broad States of Free America ! : 

And O, how slow 'twas then to get the news ; 
And friends might die. and war, and storm, and peril ■ 

Sweep a land, and months and months escape 
Before 'twas known. But now, for hours 
Advance of common time we keep, i 

Ten thousand things are told ; and all the world j 

May know how others eat and live each day — 
We talk across the wide, wide waste 
Of ocean and of land ! 

And so this gleaming Pile of precious stones. 
More costly each than gems of richest flash 
From crown of Emperor, may oft be duplicated, 
In real name and form, and reproduced 
A hundred times in other lands. ' 

And pictured oft, and wrought in Statuary 
Elegant, in art exquisite, shall grace 
The homes of men, and science halls. 
And all the places of high note where name 
Of Washington shall go on lips of Freemen ; 
And ever, with increasing count, 
To latest day of men on earth , be held 
Like treasured souvenirs. 

Thou Monument Divine ! in snowy whiteness draped, 
So like the great White Throne of God, the Judge 



Omnipotent, shalt judge the Nations wide, 
And all the peoples of the earth J 

Who practise tyranny, oppression vile ; i 

Whose laws make slaves, and working of whose power 
Holds them in bonds, in thought, or life, or worship — 
Withholding Freedom, man's noblest gift from God. ' 

And thou shalt timely judge, in love, ' 

That men may change, and change they will ' 

Before thy burning words of condemnation ; \ 

And every yoke despotic they shall break, j 

And take the wood to build the altar-fires { 

To nobler name and manhood personal. -\ 

And thou shalt judge in truth and righteousness ; I 

In knowledge, acquisition, lore for all ; 

In highest course of thought, and industries ; j 

And judge in best Morality, and Heaven-inspired j 

In Christ, who maketh man regenerate. \ 

And judge us as a people all, in that which tells { 

Of Equal Rights and blest nobility in statesmanship, 
In schools, the church, in grangers' fields, 
In soldier's call, and friendships sacred. 
And all thy judgments shall be blest ; 
And more and more as we behold 
Thy white and pure uplifted Form — 
Commending Washington, our Pattern Princely — 
An emblem speaking Greatness — free for all ! 
But who shall long abide whom thou 



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Dost ill condemn ? If changing not, 

How sure, some time, to find the "left-hand" doom I 

The great Millenium Day, by Seers so long 
Foretold, will tell of all this work sublime. 
And living Monument ! And other peerless 
Monument Divine, in New York Bay, our open 
Central Port — open to all the world — 
The Tribute Holy, National, from Queenly France, 
Our sister great Republic, and welcomed — 
Of " Liberty Enlightening all the World !" — 
For, ever till that coming Eden Day, they'll stand. 
And all along will ample help afford 
To usher in that time most glorious ! 

The Monument, the Cross, the " Way " 
To Heaven made visible, the Flag 
Of all the Free, the name of Washington, 
And name Columbia — Our free United States, 
Are canonized, as highest Saints, immortal ! 
And nations near and far, with shout and song ; 
And gold, frankincense, myrrh ; and flowers 
Perennial, of fadeless hue ; and fruits 
Of every clime, and fruits of righteousness ; 
And modes of art and science perfect ; 
And erudition vast, complete ; 
And songs of angels and of men combined ; 
And God's own kingdom in His vSon — 
" The Stone cut out" — and filling every land, 
Shall tell, when Earth keeps Jubilee 



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A Thousand Years, how great this da}' 
We celebrate ! 

O Thou, the God Supreme, and God of all the earth. 
Our Fathers' God, and God of Washington — 
Emmanuel ! we dedicate to Thee, 
With reverent praise and joyful adoration, 
This glorious Shaft, effulgent with Thy light, 
And truth, and love, and matchless free good-will to men ; 
That, ever hence, when men shall look 

Upon this glowing Height, the Natal Crown of Washington,. 
They, to the honor of Thy wondrous name, exultant, 
E'er shall say, " Behold, what God hath wrought!" 
And ever hence the glory shall be Thine ! 

And may we, joyful, sing a Nation's Hymn 
Of love, adoring gratitude and praise ! 



Thou God of Washington, 
And Nation great and strong ; 
We bow l)efore Thy radiant Throne, 
With loftiest praise and song. 

What land so high, so free. 
So honored of the Lord ! 
Thou God, who givest Liberty, 
Shall ever be adored ! 



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Thee God, our Ruler great ; 
And God of wise decree ; 
We welcome to our blest estate. 
And own Thy Sovereignty ! 

Proud Monument we raise, 
To our great Washington ! 
Who found the wisdom, courage, grace,, 
In Tliine atoning Son. 

Let all the people sa}^ 

Amen ! Thou Triune King ! 
And onward through our lengthened day 
Adoring homage bring. 

All nations yet shall praise 
The God of Washington ; 
And unto Him glad anthems raise, 
And worship Him alone. 

Filled with his knowledge then, 
Shall earth keep Jubilee ; 
With Paradise restored to men. 
In grace and majesty. 



AMERICA — HER MISSION. 



Air — " Stay-Spangled Banner.' 



We will worship to-da}^ in our triumph and grace, 
And praise we the Lord for our blest exultation ; 
To our Washington's name this proud Monument raise, 

And we'll glorify God for the gift to the Nation ; 
And our Flag it shall wave, while the Cross it will save, 
Of these will we boast, that they victory gave ; 
For the glad songs of Freedom shall welcomely ring. 
And the Christ for the world be the Name we will sing. 

How dreary the homes in their sadness and grief, 
In bondage and hate so supremely oppressive ; 
And the sorrowing ones can obtain no relief. 

For the pride of the Despot no freedom confesses ; 
But we'll tell of the grace, in the Gospel of Peace, 
And the shout of her hosts shall forever increase ; 
And the glad songs of Freedom shall welcomely ring, 
And the Christ for the world be the Name we will sing. 

What a mission have we, to all peoples and climes, 

Who know not the cheer of our grand acclamation ; 
And they see not the beams that illumine these times, 

That dawned on our life from the God of this Nation ; 
Then we'll make no delay, but for them ever pray, 
And give them the light of our own blessed day ; 
For the glad songs of Freedom shall welcomely ring. 
And the Christ for the world be the Name we will sing. 



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